September 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Parsla]

Gosh Viv,
you present so beautifully in the blog.
Lovely photographs, and previously of our native flowers.

I have been saving up a few garden photos over the week.
Increasing flashes of colour in a garden escaping winter's bleak days.

1. A Primula kisoana cultivar
2. I think Hawera is my favourite garden narcissus - slightly unkempt and brightening up the garden path for weeks on end
3. Tulipa saxatilis bakerii
4. I was lucky to receive a pot of a pleione orchid from Otto.'Shantung', with the colour and sheen of silk.

[Parsla]

A few more...

5. Iris japonica x wattii 'darjeeling' looks like it may be rather too vigorous - but sweetly so
6. A plant i thought i had lost - first flower ever. Arisaema sikokianum. Most pictures i have seen show it fully open. so watching it unfurl has been a revelation.
7. the small bearded iris 'Gingerbread man' bought from Lynn McGough
8. Some beautiful erythroniums from Otto's garden have started springing up here - after sulking for a year after transplanting. I think E. revolutum. i adore the way the petals curl just before extinguishing.